NGC 7816

NGC 7816

NGC 7816 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 245 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,141 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
245 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
5,141 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 245 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7816 as it looked roughly 245 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.

Nearest galaxies
NGC 7834Spiral5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7802Lenticular6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7827Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 7778Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 7782Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7780Spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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